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    <chapter id="config-prefs">
      <title>Advanced Configuration</title>
      <para>
        To change your configuration settings, select
        <guimenuitem>Configure Camel Providers</guimenuitem> from the
        <guimenu>Tools</guimenu> menu.  This will open the
        preferences window, illustrated in <xref linkend="config-prefs-fig">.
        Preferences are seperated into several categories:
        <itemizedlist>
          <listitem>
        <para>
               <guilabel>Identity</guilabel>, which allows you to set
               your name, email address, and other information.  The
               default values are the ones found on your system account.
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Sources</guilabel>, which allows you to specify
              your mail receiving server and protocols.
            </para>
          </listitem>

        <listitem>
         <para>
           <guilabel>Transports</guilabel>, which allows you to
           specify how you will send mail.
           </para>
         </listitem>
         </itemizedlist>

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 as well as attachment
              and HTML handling, forwarding behavior, filters, and
              other <application>Evolution</application> behaviors
              specific to email.  The default behaviors are those
              approved by Jamie Zawinski.
            </para>
      </listitem>
 
      <listitem>
        <para>
               <guilabel>Contacts</guilabel>, which allows you to
               control addressbook sharing as well as other funcctions
               specific to your contact manager.
            </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Calendar</guilabel>, which allows you to set
              up calendar networking, as well as the way that your
              calendar will behave and appear.  The default view is by
              week and the default calendar is Western.  Time and
              date are determined by the system clock and
              localization, and cannot be set here.
            </para>
      </listitem>
 
      <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>General</guilabel>, which covers everything
              else, including the <application>Evolution</application>
              startup screen.
            </para>
      </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
-->
    </para>

      <!-- ==============Figure===================== -->
      <figure id="config-prefs-fig">
    <title>Preferences Dialog</title>
    <screenshot>
      <screeninfo>Preferences dialog</screeninfo>
      <graphic fileref="fig/config-camel-fig" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
        </graphic>
    </screenshot>
      </figure>
      <!-- ==============End of Figure================-->


      <sect1 id="config-prefs-identity">
      <title>Identity Settings</title> 
      <para>
         If you have only one email address, or use automatic
         forwarding to funnel multiple addresses into one, then you
         will only need to configure one identity. You may, however,
         want more thatn one.  To alter an identity, click on it in
         the <guilabel>Identity</guilabel> tab of the
         <interface>Preferences</interface> window, and then click
         <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>. To add a new identity, simply
         click <guibutton>Add</guibutton>.
      </para>

      <para>
         In either case, you'll be presented with a dialog box with
         four fields:
          <itemizedlist>
           <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Full Name:</guilabel> by default, this is the
              same name as the full name described in your user
              account on your computer.
            </para>
      </listitem>
           <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Email address:</guilabel> Enter your email
              address in this space.
            </para>
      </listitem>
           <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Organization:</guilabel> If you send email as
              a representative of a company or other organization,
              enter its name here.
            </para>
      </listitem>
           <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Signature file:</guilabel> You may choose a
              small text file to be appended to every message that you
              send.  Typically, signature files include address or
              other contact information, or a favorite quotation.
              They should not be more than three lines long.
            </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

      </para>
    </sect1>

    <sect1 id="config-prefs-network">
      <title>Network Settings</title> 
      <para>
        In order to do much of anything with
        <application>Evolution</application>, you need to connect to
        your network.  To do that, you'll need to know your user name
        and password, what sort of mail sending and receiving
        protocols your network uses, and the names of the servers
        you'll be using.  If you're switching from another groupware
        or email progam, you can almost certainly use the same
        settings as you did with that program.  Select the
        <guibutton>Sources</guibutton> tab in the
        <interface>Preferences</interface> window to tell
        <application>Evolution</application> where you want to get
        your mail, and click <guibutton>Transports</guibutton> to
        determine how you want to send your mail.
      </para>
 
    <sect2 id="config-prefs-network-sources">
      <title>Mail Sources</title>
      <para>
            The <interface>Mail Sources</interface> tab allows you to
            edit, add, or delete methods of retreiving mail from
            servers.  Clicking on <guibutton>Add</guibutton> or
            <guibutton>Edit</guibutton> will bring up a dialog box to
            offer you the following options:
         <itemizedlist>

           <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Mail source type:</guilabel>At this point, you
              can only select from POP or Unix-style mbox files, but
              additional types will be supported in the future.
            </para>
      </listitem>

           <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Server:</guilabel>Enter the name of your mail
              server in this field, eg: mail.mycompany.com
            </para>
      </listitem>
           <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Username:</guilabel>Enter your user name here.
              Eva Lucy Ann Tester's user name is eltester.
            </para>
      </listitem>
           <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Authentication:</guilabel> Your system
              administrator will know which type of authentication
              your system requires.
              <application>Evolution</application> can also detect
              what sorts of authentication are available once it knows
              where to find the server.
            </para>
      </listitem>
           <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Test these values before continuing</guilabel>
              If this box is checked,
              <application>Evolution</application> will attempt to
              make sure that all the other entries in the dialog box
              are correct.
            </para>
        </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

          </para>
      <sect3 id="config-prefs-network-advanced-multiconnect">
        <title>Multiple Network Connections</title>
        <para>
              People with who use multiple ISP's or networks, or who
          have multiple email accounts, will need to do a little
          more work, but not much.
            </para>
        <example>
          <title>Multiple Identities and Networks</title>
          <para>
                Nate's laptop goes everywhere with him, and he needs
            to be able to use <application>Evolution</application>
            from anywhere&mdash a hotel room, an airplane, a
            client's office, his office, anywhere at all.  (INSERT
            HOW EVOLUTION HELPS HIM DO THIS).
              </para>
        </example>

        <para>
              (INSERT DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THESE THINGS ARE AND HOW TO
              USE THEM) (I'M THINKING IN TERMS OF THE APPLE LOCATION
              MANAGER) (Kill this section if Evolution doesn't support
              this for 1.0).
            </para>
      </sect3>
      
      <sect3 id="config-prefs-network-advanced-other">
        <title>Other Advanced Network Settings</title>
            <para>
              I can't think of any at the moment but i'm sure they're
              out there.  They belong here.
          </para>
      </sect3>
    </sect2>
      </sect1>
      <sect1 id="config-prefs-mail">
    <title>Modifying the Mail</title>
    <para>
          This section discusses mail-specific preferences.  Click on
          the <guibutton>Mail</guibutton> tab in the
          <interface>Preferences</interface> window to access these
          settings.
        </para>
    <para>
          You can set the following options: <!--insert variable list here-->
        </para>
      </sect1>
    
      <sect1 id="config-prefs-contact">
    <title>Managing the Contact Manager</title>
    <para>
          To set the behavior of your Contact Manager, click on the
          <guibutton>Contact Manager</guibutton> tab in the
          <interface>Preferences</interface> window.
        </para>
    <para>
          You can set the following options: <!--insert variable list
          here-->
        </para>
      </sect1>
    
      <sect1 id="config-prefs-cal">
    <title>Configuring the Calendar</title>
    <para>
          This section discusses calendar-specific preferences.  Click
          on the <guibutton>Calendar</guibutton> tab in the
          <interface>Preferences</interface> window to access these
          settings.
        </para>
        <para>
          You can set the following options: <!--insert variable list
          here-->
        </para>
      </sect1>


      <sect1 id="config-prefs-general">
    <title>General Preferences</title> 
    <para>
          Overall Evolution prefs-- whatever else doesn't fit.
        </para>
      </sect1>
    </chapter>